HeyJaredBizzy In Your Box
A monthly newsletter of writing tips, creative musings and hilarious self-promotion from New Yorker humorist Bizzy Coy.
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Jazz up your writing with Meter (opens the original)
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One element of writing that doesn’t get enough love is METER.Maybe it’s because America stubbornly eschews the metric system and all things meter-related?!Meter, at its most basic, is rhythmic pattern.Meter is something you learn in poetry class, when you’re working on fancy-schmancy forms like sonnets. But why should poets have all the metrical fun??Meter can be the difference between a line that sticks in your craw, or evaporates in the wind.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="h
9 bits of creative admin to do now (opens the original)
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After a summer of heat, humidity, rain, and wildfire smoke, we’ve finally plopped into the lap of “good sleeping weather season.” The nights are cool enough for a thick blanket. But warm enough to keep a window cracked. The crickets are on duty 24/7, singing their back-to-school song.Late summer/early fall evokes feelings of nostalgia/dread. Plenty of you out there are getting ready to haul your kids (or yourselves) back to class. Some of you have already started!This weather shouts at me: BUCKL
I finally abandoned work-life balance! (opens the original)
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I used to like the term “work-life balance,” but lately it hasn’t been working for me.I don’t like how it pits “work” and “life” against each other. My life and my work are entwined, and I like it that way.I don’t like how “balance” suggests the need for equilibrium. As a writer, a freelancer, and a human, my priorities are always shifting, often lopsided, and that isn’t always a bad thing.But yet — how to keep it all together, without falling apart?<a class="image-link image2 is-viewa
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